BABY, referring to

From: A Dictionary of Superstitions | Date: 1996| Author: IONA OPIE and MOIRA TATEM | Copyright information

BABY, referring to
1650 J. GREGORY Opuscula ‘Assyrian Monarchy’ 202. This Custom of offering Cakes to the Moon … our Ancestors may seem not to have been ignorant of; to this daie our women make Cakes at such times, yea the childe it self is no sooner born, but 'tis baptized into the names of these Cakes; for so the women call their babes Cak...

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